A discussion started on yesterday’s Strikeout Milestone post concerning players who have appeared in the most games on the winning side. That topic arose in response to media coverage of Derek Jeter appearing in his 1500th winning game last week.
After the break are the top 5 winningest players for each franchise, during the game-searchable era (since 1918).
Here’s the table. You can sort and search according to your preferences.
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Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used Generated 7/2/2012.
Some things I spotted.
- No player appears for more than one team
- Trevor Hoffman is the only pitcher in the table
- Early this season, Jimmy Rollins passed Larry Bowa for 2nd place on the Phillies list
- Paul Konerko just recently passed Frank Thomas for 3rd place on the White Sox list
- Every player on the Rays list is still active
- The Atheltics and Indians have no players appearing in 1000 wins, but seven expansion teams (including the Rockies) have such a player
- The greatest gap between first and second is 514 wins between Tony Gwynn and Trevor Hoffman for the Padres
- The smallest gap between first and fifth is 85 wins between Jim Hegan and Ken Keltner for the Indians. The Cubs have just 87 wins between Ernie Banks and Stan Hack.